blubbery

2 6.0

Full of soft thick fat under the skin like a seal

adjective
/ˈblʌbəri/

: graso

After the feast, I felt blubbery and sluggish from all the rich food.

Examples

One blew out its lips in a blubbery sigh, and Marian slapped her mount's neck in reassurance.

Fiction book (2000)
This is the most blubbery, pathetic mess of a team I've ever seen!

Seal Team (2021)
Then she exhaled in a blubbery rush and said, "Imogene Frye."

Fiction book (1998)
They look like a giant pile of rocks, a very fat, blubbery, jiggly pile of rocks.
With thick, painted-on eyebrows and eyes almost a shade of lavender, she made Lily think of Elizabeth Taylor during her boozy, blubbery days.

Fiction book (1993)
The seal's blubbery body helps it survive in freezing waters.
He had a blubbery face, with soft cheeks that seemed to sag.

Synonyms

puffy

vsblubbery

49 2.2

Rounded and soft in shape, often filled with air or soft material

is swollen because of thick fatty tissue rather than air or fluid

Antonyms

lean

140 2.5

Thin with little extra fat or money

How Fat

obese

96 3.8

fat

∞ 1.0

blubbery

2 6.0

plump

46 2.7

Surface Forms

blubbery positive

Morphology

blubbery = blubber (transparent) = blubber + y

Regular adjective formation from the noun 'blubber' with '-y' meaning 'having or resembling blubber', so the sense is directly derivable.

Etymology

Blubbery comes from blubber, which means 'fat', the thick, soft fat of seals, and the ending -y meaning 'full of' or 'covered with'. So blubbery describes something soft and full of thick fat, like a seal's body or chubby cheeks.